Vices Quotes

• Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.98, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Inspirational, Book, Beer

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Jun 23, 2016

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• If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one womanmy dear wifeas I begin this very difficult job.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Jobs, Men, Office

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Crime, Harm

  Lysander Spooner (2006). “Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

  Rene Descartes

  Book, Inspiration, Beer

  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• Vices are their own punishment

  Aesop

  Life, Wisdom, Punishment

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.55, Pelekanos Books

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• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life And Love, Book, Athlete

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Vice is its own reward.

  Quentin Crisp

  Rewards, Virtue, Vice And Virtue

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• Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Errors, Libertarian Party

  Lysander Spooner (2006). “Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The vices of some men are magnificent.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Magnificent

  Charles Lamb, Will MacDonald, Mary Lamb, Charles Edmund Brock, Winifred Green (1903). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Essays and sketches”

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• Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

  Luis Bunuel

  Father, Smoking, Alcohol

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.48, Random House

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• Spare the person but lash the vice.

  Martial

  Lashes, Persons, Spares

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• What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

  Henry Fielding

  Literature, May, Today

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• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

  Seneca the Younger

  Passion, Character, Night

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

  Charles Dickens

  Excess, Literature, Sometimes

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens”, p.835, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  Samuel Butler

  Virtue, Function, Bounds

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.47, The Floating Press

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• We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Reality, Suffering, Weakness

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Men, Political

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

  Rebecca West

  Success, Virtue, Disaster

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• Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

  Marquis de Sade

  Character, Men, Sensitive Man

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Sex, Practice, Two

  Tallulah ch. 4 (1952)

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• We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

  Denis Diderot

  Inspirational, Virtue, Standards

  "Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts". Book by Edmund Fuller, 1942.

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• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  Walter Bagehot

  Temptation, Religion, Morality

  Walter Bagehot (1968). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays”

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• The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Reason, Abandoned

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